Exref Paul Alcock has died from cancer aged 64.
We give the men in black some stick, but it can’t be easy running up and down the park with rain or sweat dripping from the brow trying to make split second decisions as professional footballers dive and pull each other shirts. No VAR in his time

RIP. Having seen the worst of Di Canio there, the clip that follows on youtube shows him at his brilliant best. 3 clear penalties denied him. What a superb example of old fashioned wing play.Unstoppable except by foul means. It also shows a ref at his worst, if only they had had VAR that game would still be being played!

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